Lumber Persona,lities A. S. Murphy

!t"l }lurphy was born in Detroit, bright and early on ( July 13th, 1892, and was immediately named Aibert Stalwood. His people were lumbermen for generations, having originally been sawmill operators in the old Pine woods in Maine and having followed the forests west to Michigan, and later to Wisconsin.

Stan took on his s,chooling at Detroit University School and later at Evans School in Arizona. While at school in Detroit he got his first lumber experience by spend- ing summer vacations in the mills at Green Bay, Wis., and his winter vacatrions in the logging woods. Being foot-loose and adventurous he branched out at the age of nineteen and went to Sco,tia where he worked in the mills of The Pacific Lumber Company which had been acquired by the Murphy family a few years before. The lumber business did not have enough interest .though, so he left after a year and went to Siskiyou County, where he worked in a min,e, for a year. This experience was enough adventure to last quite a while so he went back to Arizona and became a business man, dealing in wholesale hay and grain, while Carranza was trying to purify Mexico a few miles away.

Thig proximity to war stirred the old love of excitement so when the World War busted loose, Stan went to San Pedro and became a "Gob". Seven months later he w'as commissioned and in January, 1918, joined the U.S.S. Iroquois, going to the east coast. Here he was assigned to the U.S.S. Niagara as Navigating Officer and finished out the war convoying doughboys to France, finally returning to this country in 1919.

In 1920 he moved to Menlo Park, California, and got a job as clerk in the lumber department of A. F. Thane & Co., exporters. Three years later he return,ed to Scotia where he worked for The Pacific Lumber Company for two years, after which he was transferred to the sales department in Chicago.

In June 1925, Mr. Murphy was elected executive vicepresident of the company and returned to headquarters at Scotia. In 1931 the directors of the company elected him president, in which capacity he now directs the destinies of the outfit.

Through his interest the company has devoted much effort and capital to the development of by-products from waste material, such as bark and sawdust. These by-products will undoubtedly prove very profitable el,ements of lumber manufacture.

B. R. JULIEN RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

B. R. Julien, E. K. Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is back on his territory following a two weeks' vacation in the Northwest where he visited Bellingham and Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B. C. On his return trip, he traveled by airplane from Portland to Los Angeles.

N. C. NNWNETT ON EASTERN TRIP

Don Mullins, assistant to Ray Hunter, Sterling Lumber Co., Oroville, Calif., is in charge of the Sterling Lumber Co. yard at Folsom, Calif., while R. G. Bennett, manager of the Folsom yard, is taking a six weeks' trip in the east.

Mr. Murphy married Miss Hazel Ricks of Eureka in 1916 and they have a couple of boys coming along about ready to start out and duplicate Dad's record.

Mr. Murphy is a member of the Pacific Union Club. University Club, Bohemian Club, St. Francis Yacht Club,'Men- lo.Country Club and the Raquet Club of Chicago. When he's home he is at Scotia where the sawmills hum.

GEORGE BURNETT VISITS CANADA

_ George C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, left Los Angeles June 20 on a slow freight steamer for a leisyrely trip up the coast to Vancouver, B. C., calling at Portland on the way. He shipped his car on the boat, and will drive back to California after doing som,e sightseeing in British Columbia.

Change Of Office

Curtis Will.iam5, well known Los Angeles lumberman, announces the removal of his offices to lO27 Rowan Bldg., Fifth and Spring Streets, Los Angeles. His telephone number is MUtual 68O5.